Show NEWS I By Jg 1 Released by Western Newspaper Union WHAT SERVICEMEN IEN ARE AKE THINKING Only people free free- freely I ly speaking their minds these days day dayon dayson on the Issues of the day are the me meat men menat menat at the front or Just back I Although they are ore millions strong and will be the prevailing Influence ence once In the tho country after the war their views are seldom publicly re rea re- ported You can find out what the they I think only by talking with those a ahome at home on leave or reading their let let- letters letters to their families Their common line of ot thought a as asI I tar far as os 1 I have been able to judge ii In InI in conversations lo s is fairly accurately accurate I presented in a letter from an arm army captain received by his father i a. a a I newspaper editor Ills views seem seen seeman seeman an average of men who have rubbed elbows with allies and matched fists fist with enemies to achieve a better realistic understanding of both as ai follows Things look different out here Southwest Pacific and there Is h plenty plent of at time to reflect on past life lite because life lite out here is so primitive so basic stripped of oC all luxuries and niceties that as American kids we took for granted as part of at our coun coun- try But Dut now that we are giving we have gained a much finer per per- perceptive a a finer appreciation a And I for one do not desire to quit until weve we've wiped out out not not just beat belt down to an unconditional sur sur- surrender render render but but wiped out the youth oi of Japan and Germany and Italy For ForIt If It we do not we shall have children who will in 25 years have to fight tight the children growing up in those countries now with now with warped minds But will vIll America America get soft sort I 1 believe she is yet and will go easy on them I suppose the American people still refuse to face imperi Imperi- But Dut they damn sight better learn quick English mandates are being handed back on a silver platter out here to the English governor as lIS he moves in again islands again islands practically bathed in marines' marines blood There Is Isone Isone isone one I can think of at present and back to dear old England It goes This all may sound bloodthirsty to the average civilian very comfort comfort- comfortable comfortable comfortable able and safe In an easy chair in a carpeted home Changed No I haven't changed at all I always thought thus I Just got acquainted with primitive instincts that I figured fig fig- figured I would never have to know But I must rely on them now to pre pre- preserve preserve preserve serve the civilization lion I learned at Amherst It seems strange in a way to get acquainted with the ways our old pioneer loneer ancestors did things We like ike they hew our homes out of oC the forests live simply and plainly Strange how habits stick to a good fellow ellow good and bad The desire desireo to o keep clean for instance under the he most difficult of conditions They tell ell me rae marines m would bathe and wash vash clothes in rivers and streams almost under fire fire so so strong was the habit labit from tram earlier training to keep clean Even now washing clothes Is pretty primitive I usually do mine minem on m the hood of a Jeep with the front end nd half halt way into the stream Makes a good wash board and a fast tast run run- running ling ning river furnishes plenty of water Dont think Just because we are aren In n the service we dont don't have Ions ons Yes and they will be bringing them hem back back back-a a strengthened respect for or the American way of life a first first- firsthand hand land knowledge of the inferiority and md competition of at other systems a hatred of at political deceptions or small talk propaganda in short a anew anew new lew realistic lodge knowledge of the world 4 LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM I DEFIES ANALYSIS LYSIS In and out of congress the re- re reaction action to Mr Roosevelt's many many- sided new mew legislative program sound sound- ed id squeaky or devastatIngly devastatingly quiet This was almost necessarily so The ideas themselves defied straight comment or analytical sifting For instance the President pro- pro proposes proposes poses oses to get g t the power to draft pea peo- peole pie le into industry in order to pre pre- prevent vent ent strikes But there already is Isa isa a law supposed to prevent strikes directly the Smith Smith-Connally act providing a cooling off period gov gov- government seizure and penalties Un- Un UnIon Ion m leaders shouted a few months back ack this was fascistic robbery of at I their right to strike Mr Roosevelt does docs oes not propose to amend that tha t or I make nake it stronger I This new law which he now wants Is 5 not one to draft strikers into the army army or make them work but to al- al allow low v jw him to draft everyone everone women 18 18 is to 50 50 as well as men 18 to 65 60 into Ho any work w-ork he chooses hy by proc proc- Thus the proposition is to punish Junish unish all aU for the sins of the labor unions Then again this Wadsworth Austin bill ill was proposed a few years ears ago strictly asa as a manpower shortage measure leasure But the President did not mention a manpower shortage ns RS a justification for attempting to re vive ive It |